Introduction
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Courtesy of ASUS
The P8Z77X-I Deluxe is ASUS' high-powered answer to the small form factor crowd. Through some unique design decisions and an upright daughter-board, ASUS was able to cram a full...
Introduction
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Courtesy of Oyen Digital
Oyen Digital, a popular manufacturer of portable storage enclosures and devices, provided us with its MiniPro™ eSATA / USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive enclosure...
NVIDIA revolutionized gaming on the desktop with the release of its 600-series Kepler-based graphics cards in March 2012. With the release of the GeForce GT 700M series, Kepler enters the mobile arena to power laptops, ultrabooks, and all-in-one systems...
Power Consumption
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The P8Z77-I Deluxe's power consumption performance is in-line with expectations, falling a bit below the other two Intel Z77-based boards with the AMD Radeon 5870 HD card...
ASUS OC Tuner
After clicking the OC Tuner link from the Ai Tweaker page in the BIOS, the system booted into Windows at a 4.2GHz CPU clockspeed with a 103MHz base clock setting and memory running at 1922MHz. Memory timings were auto-set to 11-11-11-30-2T...
3DMark 11
Future Mark Corporation’s 3DMark 11 is a reliable test for determining a system’s performance in DirectX 11 type games. The benchmark measures both graphics-based and PhysX-based system capabilities. The benchmark tests were run...
Handbrake
Handbrake was used to convert an uncompressed version of the Iron Man Blu-ray movie in MKV format to a compressed 720P MP4 format. The Iron Man MKV file was ripped from the Blu-ray disc in the past with the file size for the uncompressed media...
SiSoft Sandra 2012
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With strong performance against both Intel Z77-based systems, the ASUS P8Z77-I Deluxe illustrates that its CPU and memory subsystems are...
Audio Subsystem Testing
Audio Playback Testing
Using a selection of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal music tracks and Windows Media Player, the audio subsystem playback performance was tested for playback accuracy and fidelity. Playback of the selected audio...
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To verify that the motherboard works as advertised, the board was run through our standard benchmark suite. In most cases, the results are presented for the motherboard under review as well as a different...
